Can film change our perceptions of scientists?

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 13 October, 2009 to the movies subset

Scientist turned film maker Alexis Gambis is hoping to change perceptions of his profession through a series of films:
Science is a core element in everything that happens in the world. People are fascinated by it, but intimidated. I think it’s important for films to show who scientists are outside the lab, to portray them [...]

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To be a scientist, you don’t have to be a mad scientist

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 24 June, 2009 to the comment subset

Scientists apparently have a reputation for being rude and not particularly sociable, a misconception Chad Orzel sets out to dispel.
Einstein, for example, was a brilliant thinker, but also personally very charming. His enduring fame probably owes at least as much to his personality as to his science – he was well-liked and respected by pretty [...]

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Taking the fiction out of science fiction, say it isn’t so

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 21 November, 2008 to the comment subset

What? Increase the scientific accuracy of movies? Where would the fun in that be? What, for example, would Star Trek be like without inertial dampers?
Scientists may have less to cringe about when they go to the movies, if a new initiative designed to foster cooperation between scientists and the entertainment industry is successful. The new [...]

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Artists are scientists in the creative realm

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 15 October, 2008 to the comment subset

Allow the Experience Designer Manifesto to elaborate on the emerging discipline of Experience Design:
Artists are not different than scientists. “The artist is an exalted craftsman”, as stated by Walter Gropius in the Bauhaus Manifesto. “By the grace of Heaven and in rare moments of inspiration which transcend the will, art may unconsciously blossom from the [...]

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